Andy White, author of Podcasting Unleashed, has created three videos that show common microphones in action.  These mics are great for screencasting and Andy shows you a few tips on mic technique. If you’ve never used a higher-end mic then watch these videos – you’ll learn how to identify the front, top and back of […]

Dmitry at Solveig Multimedia sent me the press release for the release of HyperCam 3.  Their new release is a low-cost (under 30 Euros) screencasting tool for Windows that integrates a simple editor, it is probably going to be a very useful tool for low-budget screencasting. HyperCam 3 can record live-video and regular screens and […]

Over on my personal blog I’ve documented How I write The Screencasting Handbook.  I want to keep the process open so other people can replicate my process and improve upon it. Amongst other things I talk about how I decided on the topics that needed covering, the infrastructure behind the site and what I might […]

One of the biggest problems with screencasting is poor audio quality.  It doesn’t matter how swish your graphics are or how carefully you’ve planned your script – if your audio is hissy, full of pops and breaths and background sounds (like traffic!) then the listener will be disappointed. This topic is discussed in more detail […]

Andy White, my accountability buddy, is writing his own eBook on podcasting.  Podcasting Unleashed s being developed in the same way that I’m developing The Screencasting Handbook.  It is at an early stage, like me he’s just recently started selling copies (you have to be on the email list to get the link). The homepage […]

I’ve uploaded Release 5 of the Handbook and sent out update emails to everyone who bought an earlier copy.  The new release has 1 full new chapter and 1 new half chapter and takes the word-count up to 13,000. The new chapter is ‘Make a screencast in 2 hours’ and discusses Camtasia Studio, BBFlashBack and […]

ResolverSystems have just published a new screencast made by Jonathan Hartley (one of their engineers) showing how BioPython can be used from within one of their spreadsheets.  I’m going to give a brief critique here with two suggestions for improvements.  Here’s Jonathan’s screencast: The Good: The video is clear and the length is 3 minutes […]

Silvio Grosso was good enough to send me details of his workflow using Windows and Linux screencasting software.  I’ve tidied it up a bit and reprinted it here.  I discuss more workflow approaches in the Handbook.  Thanks Silvio! For my colleagues, I record my video tutorials with CamStudio 2.5 beta. This software has plenty of […]

Recently I used BBSoftware’s FlashBack Pro 2.6.6 to record two series of tutorial videos for ShowMeDo on OpenOffice Base and Impress (see some details on the series at ProCasts). You can see one of the resulting videos at the end of this article. Here I’ll share some of the highs and lows of using FlashBack.  […]

Last Friday I started to sell an early release of The Screencasting Handbook to everyone who is on the mailing list. I’m being careful to only sell via the mailing list as I want everyone who purchases to know that the book is very much a work-in-progress that is not in any way complete. So […]